Tod,
Particularly love your more recent work, the pieces look like they popped out of a Renaissance painting. That honey coloured wood is eye candy, especially in contrast to the burnished steel. The scabbard is what I would expect to encounter in the period. One of these days I must spring for one of your pieces, something like this, or a composite styled crossbow with a cranequin and bone inlay. Its a question of the "readies," but I'll get there.
Henry

Jeremiah,
As the owner of the thissuperb degen http://myArmoury.com/talk/viewtopic.php?t=34445&highlight= that Tod made for me as part of a Swiss kit I can say that I have never had any trouble with the guard hitting my wrist. You grip this type of degen in a slightly non-traditional way in that the cross guard is slight off-set from the wrist & arm rather than held in line with it. Doing so becomes very natural quickly as the entire design of the hilt IMHO invites you to hold it that way as the grip is more secure and the balance and control better."There is nothing more hazardous than to venture a battle. One can lose it
by a thousand unforseen circumstances, even when one has thorougly taken all
precautions that the most perfect military skill allows for."
-Fieldmarshal Lennart Torstensson.

Jeremiah,
As the owner of the thissuperb degen http://myArmoury.com/talk/viewtopic.php?t=34445&highlight= that Tod made for me as part of a Swiss kit I can say that I have never had any trouble with the guard hitting my wrist. You grip this type of degen in a slightly non-traditional way in that the cross guard is slight off-set from the wrist & arm rather than held in line with it. Doing so becomes very natural quickly as the entire design of the hilt IMHO invites you to hold it that way as the grip is more secure and the balance and control better.

Check! Having owned a weapon of this style in past years, YES, it requires a bit of a different grip style. But, once you get used to it...like fluid. .....McM''Life is like a box of chocolates...'' --- F. Gump

Following reading this, I handled the piece again today and when flexing the wrist the guard does not hit the forearm, but actually what it does do is extend the defence of the hand further up than a straight quillon , so it acts a little like a knuckle bow would (though with not as much coverage).

Jeremiah,
As the owner of the thissuperb degen http://myArmoury.com/talk/viewtopic.php?t=34445&highlight= that Tod made for me as part of a Swiss kit I can say that I have never had any trouble with the guard hitting my wrist. You grip this type of degen in a slightly non-traditional way in that the cross guard is slight off-set from the wrist & arm rather than held in line with it. Doing so becomes very natural quickly as the entire design of the hilt IMHO invites you to hold it that way as the grip is more secure and the balance and control better.

Hi Daniel,

Thanks for chipping-in on this discussion. For the record, I highly doubt that someone would own a sword- in any century- that they couldn't trust to their own self-defense.

Nevertheless, the very first reaction I had when I saw this sword was "ouch"!

Thanks for your clarification on the usage of weapons such as this."Rhaegar fought nobly.
Rhaegar fought valiantly.
Rhaegar fought honorably.
And Rhaegar died."

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